ROM Hack [Release] AGB_FIRM Signature Patcher + GBA ROM Converter

rainparadesamurai · Jun 13, 2015

is it possible to inject save files for use with playing gba games in this method?

stl25 · Jun 13, 2015

yafeee said:
You have to hex-edit your rom, as explained for Pokemon games. Then when your first launch the game, create a save data, the screen will be shaking, and you have to reboot the game to make it work. It will just say that your save is corrupt at every start up, but it works.

What hex string is in need of hex-edit. The string for the pokemon games (D0 88 8D 83 42) is not present in Super Mario Advance 4, so people like myself and Canadacdn do not know what to edit. If this is posted in another thread let me apologize for not having researched before posting.

yafeee · Jun 13, 2015

stl25 said:
What hex string is in need of hex-edit. The string for the pokemon games (D0 88 8D 83 42) is not present in Super Mario Advance 4, so people like myself and Canadacdn do not know what to edit. If this is posted in another thread let me apologize for not having researched before posting.

The hex string in Super Mario Advance 4 is D0 08 8D etc.

Here is a quick patch for the 1.0 US version.

stl25 · Jun 13, 2015

Thank you. How are you able to identify the hex string for patching in troublesome games? You and @AmeenX have help me with these fixes and I am so appreciative.

yafeee · Jun 13, 2015

stl25 said:
Thank you. How are you able to identify the hex string for patching in troublesome games? You and @AmeenX have help me with these fixes and I am so appreciative.

The method is from Riku, I just analysed the effect of his patch with an hex-editor in order to be able to apply it to other games. So, thank him, not me :3

reprep · Jun 13, 2015

do sleep patches work? something like that which works on my ez flash 4 http://www.kuwanger.net/gba/sleephack/

hippy dave · Jun 13, 2015

I haven't got sleep patches working yet, have only tried on one game really but tried that patcher you linked and the one in gbata, no luck.
The ambassador game Yoshi's Island has a built-in sleep mode, and that works, so there must be a way if someone can figure out the right patch.

reprep · Jun 13, 2015

hippy dave said:
I haven't got sleep patches working yet, have only tried on one game really but tried that patcher you linked and the one in gbata, no luck.
The ambassador game Yoshi's Island has a built-in sleep mode, and that works, so there must be a way if someone can figure out the right patch.

thanks for the info. i can also confirm sleep mode in side loaded games with built-in sleep mode like mario and luigi superstar saga also works .

SLiV3R · Jun 14, 2015

Cool. This means that we hopefully will be able to get sleep mode in these gba injections

But tbh I'm perfectly happy the way things are right now with gba injections. The games plays perfect. I can't ask for more!

hippy dave · Jun 14, 2015

The man like @Normmatt seems to be a master of gba hacking, maybe he can help if we ask nicely :bow:

ShinkoNet · Jun 14, 2015

I'm trying to get a romhack of Pokemon FireRed working. It's Touhou Puppet Play 1.8 Enhanced with Casual Music and Renko patch.

I've gotten it to launch and work fine (except with save error) when I don't tamper around in hex with it.

However, when I do AmeenX's tutorial (I made sure it isn't SRAM patched) it says An Error has Occurred when booting the cia.

What am I doing wrong?

JJTapia19 · Jun 14, 2015

ShinkoNet said:
I'm trying to get a romhack of Pokemon FireRed working. It's Touhou Puppet Play 1.8 Enhanced with Casual Music and Renko patch.

I've gotten it to launch and work fine (except with save error) when I don't tamper around in hex with it.

However, when I do AmeenX's tutorial (I made sure it isn't SRAM patched) it says An Error has Occurred when booting the cia.

What am I doing wrong?

I was about to ask the same thing but with pokemon emerald I have done all the patches correctly and I still have the save corrupted and clock battery error however it still saves. Did I fix it correctly and the error is supposed to still happen after the save fix?

AmeenX · Jun 14, 2015

ShinkoNet said:
I'm trying to get a romhack of Pokemon FireRed working. It's Touhou Puppet Play 1.8 Enhanced with Casual Music and Renko patch.

I've gotten it to launch and work fine (except with save error) when I don't tamper around in hex with it.

However, when I do AmeenX's tutorial (I made sure it isn't SRAM patched) it says An Error has Occurred when booting the cia.

What am I doing wrong?

Send me the patch of the romhack i wanna try

JJTapia19 said:
I was about to ask the same thing but with pokemon emerald I have done all the patches correctly and I still have the save corrupted and clock battery error however it still saves. Did I fix it correctly and the error is supposed to still happen after the save fix?

Yeah the message error will appears but the save works perfectly

AmeenX · Jun 14, 2015

For 32mb pokemon ROM hacks

SLiV3R · Jun 14, 2015

I thought as everyone don't have the old gba. I share picture comparison so everyone can see the difference in brightness.

From left to right: original gba sp, N3DSXL, gba sp ags -101.

First picture the gbas has the lowest brightness. Second picture the gbas has the highest brightness.

I choose to play my gba library on the N3DSXL

gbazone · Jun 14, 2015

Is there an OSX version of this tool yet? I tried searching the thread but you can't search in three character perimeters.

reprep · Jun 14, 2015

New 3DS XL vs GBA micro.

Classicgamer · Jun 14, 2015

ooo how'd you get Mario advance 1 and 3 to work? I get corrupted saves (dun dun dun!)

sion_zaphod · Jun 14, 2015

Just thought I'd share this bit of info with the community. I was able to convert SMSAdvance gba packed with complete romsets of Sega SG-1000/GameGear and Master System into CIA using tools from here. I can now run every game for those sega systems on my 3DS. Also had some good results with PocketNes and Cologne(ColecoVision Emulator) and NGPAdvance(NeoGeo Pocket Emulator) and PCEAdvance(PC Engine Emulator). So more complete Retro CIA's could be around the corner. I will not be posting links to my files on GBATemp for obvious reasons but anyone interested can search through 3DS boards elsewhere and find them.

I hope this encourages continued homebrew development for the 3DS scene (Especially the emulation brew!).

hippy dave · Jun 14, 2015

gbazone said:
Is there an OSX version of this tool yet? I tried searching the thread but you can't search in three character perimeters.

No. The tools work fine using Wine tho. I've been half tempted to try and write my own mac versions, but I haven't had the motivation and am busy with other projects really.

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